Abstracts Brochure - CERN

MOYBPA — Circular Colliders 26-Jun-06 11:30 - 12:30
MOYBPA — Circular Colliders
LHC Progress and Commissioning Plans
The LHC at CERN is in its final installation
phase, and the first tests with beam are O.S. Brüning (CERN)
planned for part of the machine for the end
of 2006. The commissioning of the full machine with beam is planned for summer 2007. The talk summarizes the
current status of the LHC installation and the strategy for obtaining an optimum hardware configuration. In a second
part the talk outlines the main milestones for the hardware and beam commissioning and presents estimates for the
expected performance levels for the commissioning phase with beam.
Operation of High-luminosity Meson Factories and the Challenge to go to the Next Generation
This talk will present an overview of the
operational status of B- and Phi-Factories, K. Akai (KEK)
and address their present luminosity performance
and limitations, such as electron cloud effects. It will also discuss upgrade plans, including motivation and
beam dynamics challenges, new ideas, R&D and machine experiments in view of the next generation of meson
factories with ∼100 times more luminosity. In particular, it will address machine tests with strong RF focusing, crab
cavity developments and first operational experience at KEKB.
Chair: S.-I. Kurokawa (KEK, Ibaraki) 41
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